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. 2019 Nov 26;19(23):5170. doi: 10.3390/s19235170
3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project
AIS Automatic Identification System
AMC Adaptive Modulation and Coding
ANN Artificial Neural Network
AP Access Point
AU Aerial User
BS Base Station
CA Collision Avoidance
CE Cross Entropy
CEO Cross Entropy Optimiser
CNN Convolution Neural Network
CP Cyber-Physical
CPS Cyber-Physical System
CSI Channel State Information
CSMA Carrier Sensing Multiple Access
D2D Device-to-Device
DA Discriminant Analysis
DDPG Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient
DDRL Deep Distributed Reinforcement Learning
DQN Deep Q-Network
DQL Deep Q-Learning
DL Deep Learning
DRL Distributed Reinforcement Learning
eNB Evolved NodeB
ESN Echo State Network
FANET Flying Ad Hoc Network
GEO Geostationary Earth Orbit
GMM Gaussian Mixture Model
GP Gaussian Process
GPS Global Positioning System
GPU Graphics Processing Unit
GU Ground User
HAPS High Amplitude Platform Station
HDMF Heterogeneous Deep Model Fusion
IoT Internet of Things
KNN K Nearest Neighbor
LAP Low Altitude Platform
LD Linear Discriminant
LEO Low Earth Orbit
LiDAR Light Detection and Ranging
LR Linear Regression
LSBoost Least Squares Boosting
LSM Liquid State Machine
LTE Long-Term Evolution
MAB Multi-Armed Bandit
MAC Medium Access Control
MAE Mean Absolute Error
MAPE Mean Absolute Percent Error
MDP Markov Decision Process
MEO Medium Earth Orbit
MFCC Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients
MG Minority Games
MILP Mixed Integer Linear Programming
MIMO Multiple-Input Multiple-Output
ML Machine Learning
MLE Maximum Likelihood Estimation
MLP Multiple Layer Perceptron
mmWave millimeter Waveband
MOS Mean Opinion Score
MUM Manned and Unmanned
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NHPSO Network-Based Heterogeneous Particle Swarm Optimization
NMPC Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
NN Neural Network
NOMA Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access
NTN Non-Terrestrial Networks
OBU On-Board Unit
OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
OFDMA Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access
PHC Policy Hill Climbing
PL Path-Loss
PLS Physical Layer Security
PoI Point of Interest
POMDP Partially Observable Markov Decision Process
PSN Public Safety Network
PT Prospect Theory
QD Quadratic Discriminant
QoE Quality of Experience
QoS Quality of Service
RandF Random Forest
RAT Radio Access Technology
RF Radio Frequency
RL Reinforcement learning
RMSE Root Mean Squared Error
RNN Recurrent Neural Network
RPV Remotely Piloted Vehicle
RSS Received Signal Strength
RSU Roadside Unit
RTCA Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics
SDR Software Defined Radio
SINR Signal-to-Interference plus Noise Ratio
SIR Signal-to-Interference Ratio
SMGD Sequential-Markov-Greedy-Decision
SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio
SSA Salp Swarm Algorithm
SSN Self-Sustaining Networks
STFT Short-Time Fourier Transform
SVM Support Vector Machine
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
UE User Equipment
UI User Interface
USRP Universal Software Radio Peripheral
V2X Vehicle-to-Everything
VANET Vehicular Ad Hoc Network
WPC Wireless Powered Communication